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AQUARIUM.

No. 256,240. Patented Apr. 11,1882.

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BY 0/ QMQQW ATTORNEY UNITED STAT S PATENT OFFICE- CHARLES N. ORPEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE E. P. GLEASON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

AQUARIUM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,240, dated April 11, 1882. Application filed December 10, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: and upon each side of this thimble G the up- Be it known that I, CHARLES N. ORPEN, of per portion of the globe B is provided with the city, county, and State of New York, have the oval openings D, so that a current of air invented Improvements in Aquariums; and is maintained upon the surface of the water 5 I do hereby declare that the following is a full, contained in the globe B, and at the same time clear, and correct description of the same, refprovision is made for access to the interior of erence being bad to the accompanying'drawthe globe B through these openings to fill the ings, and to the letters of reference marked same with water and for t-heiutroduction ofthe thereon, in whichfish or water-plants. The upper portion of the I) Figure l is a view of my globe and stand. stand A may, it desired, be provided with a Fig. 2 is a view of the globe; Fig. 3, a view of vase or receptacle, E, for flowers, although in the slot or opening in the globe; Fig. 4, a view many cases this vase may not be employed. so of the thimble used in connection with the Such being the construction, the globe B is globe. partially filled with water and the fish or water- 1 In the drawings,like parts of the invention plants placed in the same through the oval are pointed out by the same letters of referopenings D, and a current of air being mainence. tained upon the surface of the water through The nature of the presentinvention consists these openings, the water in the globe'B will in the construction, as more fully hereinafter bekept cool and pure and require to be changed 20 sets forth, of a globe for holding fish or wateronly occasionally.

plants, and in a stand for supporting the same, The article thus produced will form an atthe object of the invention being the productractive and instructive one for house ornation of a new, attractive, and instructive artimentation.

cle of this class for house ornamentation. Having now described my invention, what 25 To enable those skilled in the arts to make I claim as new isand use my invention, I will describe the same. 1. In an aquarium, a globe, B, provided with A shows a frame-work of the tripod order, a threaded nipple, and with small openings D, formed of any suitable material, and provided in combination with a thimble, C, substantially in its upper part with a hook, a, from which as set forth.

0 may be suspended the globe B. 2. In an aquarium, the combination, with a B is a globe, formed of glass, and intended stand, A, provided with a hook, on, of the globe to be used as a receptacle for fish or water- B, having the thimble O and eye a and the plants. The globe B is usually made with a oval openings D, substantially as and for the projecting threaded nipple, n, to which the purposes set forth.

3 5 thimble C is screwed or otherwise held in any CHAS. N. ORPEN.

convenient way. In the upper part of thimble Witnesses: C is an eye, 0, by which the globe B may be E. P. GLEASON,

suspended from the hook ain the stand A, E. F. GENNERT. 

